I never pitched a tent in McKeldin Square. However, I did spend time discussing issues, stood with a homemade "Bring Back Glass-Steagall" sign on the corner of Light and Pratt streets and marched in a "Save Post Office Jobs" picket line.

Occupy Baltimore's inability to communicate is much to blame for its apparent deterioration. No one had a phone number or contact information. There was no central location, other than the McKeldin Square venue. Many of the issues addressed by these folks were important, yet position papers, websites and similar back-up tools were nonexistent.

Soon the McKeldin Square encampment became a nexus for misfits and pseudo-hippies hoping to reinvent the 1960s. Since free food, clothing and other handouts were available, the space also attracted homeless people and vagrants.

At the last "general assembly" I attended (hoping to interest folks with my concerns about surveillance), the Occupiers only wanted to discuss an upcoming protest against the Grand Prix.

Most of the people I met at Occupy Baltimore appeared well educated, dedicated to their cause and articulate. Nevertheless, when it came to basic organizing skills, they were lacking. It's unfortunate a valuable movement with such potential probably will just end up as a footnote to history.

Columnist Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. has certainly written quite a flamboyant article regarding the Occupy movement ("Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23). In it, he states a disconnect between them and the so-called "middle class," a catch-all term he uses to project his own identity. Most...

The Occupy Wall Street movement was created to make people aware of issues that aren't usually discussed in the mainstream corporate media: the greed of the powerful, the destruction of the environment, violence against women and gays and the perpetual war waged for oil and other resources,...

In his recent column ("'Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23), Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. illustrates the denial of economic reality in America that is continually propagated by the 1 percent. At the heart of his argument is the idea that the American Dream is alive and well, the happy...

Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s column about the first anniversary of the Occupy movement betrays a hubris, a willful stupidity, and the usual threadbare deceptions ("Occupy movement got America wrong," Sept. 23). Such are the building blocks of the corrupt edifice that Occupy seeks to dismantle.

The usual whining from the extreme right about media bias is evident in a recent letter from Stephen Sewell ("Sun lavishes attention on 'Occupy,' ignores tea party," Sept. 24). The writer is long on allegations and short on facts.

Let me get this straight: a spontaneous movement arises and takes up the name "Tea Party" based on historical actions and the acronym "taxed enough already," amasses a very large number of either followers or sympathizers, and literally reverses the party breakdown in the U.S. House of...